Biotransformation of explosives by the old yellow enzyme family of flavoproteins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3566-3574

  Williams, Richard E ^a,d   Rathbone, Deborah A ^a,c   Scrutton, Nigel S ^b   Bruce, Neil C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; EXPLOSIVES; SUBSTRATES; YEAST;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; NITROAROMATIC EXPLOSIVES;

ENZYMES;

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; EXPLOSIVE; FLAVOPROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRINITROTOLUENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 2942563803     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3566-3574.2004     Document Type: Article

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